Every year, the gap between rich and poor gets even wider – and it’s being fuelled by the use of tax havens. Today, 8 individuals have the same wealth as the poorest half the people on our planet. It is time to bring an end to inequality. It is time to Even it up!
For 40 years, the Quechua communities in Peru have lived with contaminated rivers, and poor health as a result of oil drilling. Teddy Guerra is leading the effort to obtain integral land rights for his community before any more concessions are given to oil companies. Read his story and sign the petition.
Millions of people are being forced to flee their homes, risking everything to escape conflict, disaster, poverty or hunger. We are working in nine of the ten top refugee source countries as well as in refugee host countries. We urgently need your help to reach people in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and in Europe.
With no end in sight to the conflict in Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are living in desperate conditions and exposed to continuing violence. Today, half the pre-conflict population of 22 million Syrians have fled their homes and more than 13.5 million people urgently need your help.
Since 1982, Oxfam has supported Colombian civil society initiatives aimed at active citizenship: meaning a broad movement of citizens capable of making proposals, taking democratic decisions in a responsible and informed manner, and demanding compliance with the Colombian constitution and Colombian state accountability.
We support alternative models that promote rural development in Colombia and contribute to bringing about changes in local public policy on market access and food security and sovereignty. The Economic Justice program also seeks to help the rural sector prevent and adapt to the effects of both climate change and global trade rules.
The Rights in Crisis program aims to ensure that citizens and civil society organizations in Colombia affected by the crisis in human rights and international humanitarian law, and also by natural disasters, contribute towards the Colombian State’s fulfilment of its duty to protect and guarantee their fundamental rights and to resolve the structural causes that fuel the crisis. The program comprises five parts:
With the Women's Rights program, we aim for women's organizations and movements to secure greater involvement in decision-making in social, economic, and political spheres, as well as recognition of their rights in the legislative field, the design of policies, and in social and family matters.
In this way, through the balance in power relations, we seek a change in policies, practices, ideas, and beliefs that reinforce and reproduce the inequalities and violence exerted against women's rights, so that the strategic interests of women are taken into account.
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